I Need A New Blog

I'm getting ready to get a new blog here on blogger. I can't find a name though. I don't want it to have my name in the title of the new blog. I want it to have a totally seperate identity from this blog. The ideas for names keep coming, but they're all taken.

The new blog will be about any and everything. This one is supposed to focus on money, investing, banking etc. but I have gone astray. So I can get back to basics on this one.

New York Here I Come

I'm planning a late spring/early summer trip to New York. The main purpose is for a baseball game. I know that tickets are hard to get. But I have friends that live there so they're going to get them for me. Since the team I want to see never comes here, I have to go there. I don't mind they're worth it.

I have other things planned during my trip. First, I'm going to a spa, then do some shopping. I also plan on seeing a New York Chiropractor. I work on a computer and I hunch over. Since my insurance will cover it, I can see a doctor. Besides, one of the doctors specializes in sports medicine and athletes get hurt, so.... Hey, I gotta meet them anyway I can.

I Want A Snow Day

I was hoping for a snow day today. I woke up and grabbed the phone to call our emergency hotline. No snow day. Business as usual. Everyone is expected to be at work. We could use an approved absence day or a vacation day. I need to save those absence days for when I really get sick. I can't take them off just because I don't want to go out in the snow. A girl can always hope can't she?

My Apartment Is Dark And Dreary

I need new lights. My apartment is so dark. I've had 3 bulbs go out in the past 2 days. I can't believe all of the bulbs are blowing out at the same time. I have a floor lamp in my living room. My living room is shaped like the letter L so half of the room is dark which is the reason for the lamp. Did I mention that I almost fell off of a chair trying to change those lights. I felt the chair moving and had to shift my weight to catch my balance.

I have 2 Bathroom lights. It's still not bright enough in there. In the morning, I can't always tell that my skin is dry and flaky. So I walk out of the house crusty looking. I have to dash in the bathroom at work and lotion my face. Crusty is not a good look.

I'm going to install my own fixtures to brighten this place up a bit. It looks sort of like a dungeon.

Oh The Weather Outside Is Frightful

Actually, it's downright nasty. It's snowing like crazy. Nothing like they've had in Western New York though. (I believe they're up to 100" or so) Now, on top of the snow, we're getting freezing rain. So travelling is a mess. I feel bad for people that have a long commute home from work. I live in the city and this is one of the main reasons why. When the weather is bad, I'm never more than 1/2 hr from home. If I drove to work, it would take 10 minutes. But since I go to Pitt, my school id is a bus pass so I catch the bus free.

I hope this stops soon. I don't want to have to deal with slush in the morning. Maybe I'll change my major again so I can move to a warm weather place sooner rather than later.

My Mama's Moldy

Ok. Well, her house is anyway. She moved some stuff from down in the basement and found mold everywhere. It was pretty gross from what she told me. We think it was from a flood she had a few months ago. I told her she should have a company come in and do mold testing. There is a company in New Jersey that specializes in this. And get this, they use dogs to find the mold! How wild is that? The dogs are specially trained to find the source of the mold. But she really needs to get it done soon. I don't want to go home to moldy-ville.!

Holy Moly

Look at the size of that picture. I might have to try and resize that thing. It's taking over half of my screen. And I'm still forgeting to put tags in my posts. I just don't remember until I have already published. But I won't do anything until I eat. It's almost 9:30pm est and I still haven't eaten. I'm starving.

Hey Why Not - Just Say Hi

Well it's almost here. The dreaded Valentine's Day. Well, dreaded for those of us who are single with no significant other. If you're looking for someone special or just want to meet new people check out this Free Online Dating service.

That's right, the site is 100% free. No credit card needed ever. You can look for a one time date or look for someone to build a relationship with. And here's the best part for me: if you're too shy to build a profile and/or email people, there's a forum section. The forum is a great way to meet people without the dating pressure.

I like the forum section a lot. The first section I visited was the jokes & funny stories section, of course. After all, a person with a great sense of humor is a must. They also have general discussion, a section for parents, an adult section, and a sports section. It's really a great site and since it's free you should definitely check it out.

Website Changes

I have enough problems with my website. Now one of the sites that I post for is adding major changes. I have to add all kinds of html code to my site. That's not even the hard part. They usually tell you exactly where to put the code. Cool, that's easy.

Then they start telling you about all of these changes. Of course, I have no idea what they are talking about. They add tacks to rate you, but you have no idea how many people have rated you. So my rate is a 3 but did 1 person give me a 3 or were there multiple votes?

I might just wait until they fix their bugs before I post for them again.

Who Are You?

I hate when I get those unknown cell phone numbers. They always seem to call early in the morning when I'm at work and can't answer my phone. Or I call back and it's a telemarketer. I hate that. It's bad enough that they call you at home, but now they call on your cell phone too.

Well, you can use this site Reverse Cell Phone Lookup to find out who owns the phone number calling you. You can also look up all kinds of records. You can look up criminal records, bankruptcy records, arrest records and the like. These records can be especially useful if you are thinking of employing someone as a sub-contractor and need to investigate their backgrounds. Or even a a potential mate. How about the person that doesn't have any children. Then you check him out and find out he owes back child support. Hmmm. Now you can use this site to check people out because, unfortunately, everyone doesn't always tell the truth.

Brrrrrrr

I is so cold here right now. The temperature is 10 but it feels like -2 (yup minus 2). Ok now I could understand this in Chicago or Minnesota, but Pittsburgh? Geeze, it just doesn't get that cold here. It was even colder yesterday.

I didn't go to school today either. I was not about to stand outside in that bitter cold waiting on buses. I think I ran home too. Shivering all the way. Come on spring!

Hmmm A New Host Perhaps?

I think I described the trouble I've been having with my online host provider thoroughly. I have had a couple of comments and plenty of emails giving me suggestions. I think I may have found something with this site: 'Name Your Price' Web hosting.

It's a site run by Unified-Hosting.com. Their premise is really simple. You tell them the specifications that you want for your site: # of websites you want hosted, subdomains, how many MB of space, # of SQL databases and so forth. Then you can tell them what price you want to pay. There is also a space to let them send you back a quote telling you how much your package is worth.

What a concept. Pay for what you need and none of that other stuff like other companies. Your initial offer can be as low as $1.00 per month. That's insanely cheap for hosting. You also get 99% uptime, a 30 day money back guarantee and 24/7 customer service help.

The best part is they also offer regular hosting packages. The starter packages are as low as $3.98 per month. You can also buy domains names there as well. I guess I need to get over there and check them out.

Super Bowl Ads-No Credit Needed Blog

Check out this post over at No Credit Needed. This post sums up the entire second half of the game. I totally agree with his assessment of the Nationwide K-Fed commercial. I think this will probably be the most talked about commercial of the night.

Surf around his site. He has posts where he critiques all of the commercials of the night. It's a great site with lots of info.

Give Me Strength To Deal With This Website

I'm going crazy. I really am. I can't get my website up and running. I have a blog. I need another. But more than that I need a business site and Business Web Site Hosting. I had an online business for a while, but because I had horrible hosting, I was loosing business. My hosting just wasn't reliable at all.

I have a new host, but they don't seem to be much better. So any help that I get is greatly appreciated. This site seems to have a lot of information available. I've found some great articles to help me out. It's good to know that there is plenty of information out there to help the less tech savvy people like me.

Super Bowl Commercials Part II

The commercials in the second half seem to be a lot better. Maybe they decided to run all of the lame commercials first?

I like the Career Builder promotion pit. That was original.

The Nationwide commercial with K-Fed was good. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. When I first heard that he was getting a commercial I started with the predictable rant about "who was he" and "his 5 minutes are up". But I will admit that I liked the commercial.

The Budweiser commercial with Jay Z and Don Shula was pretty good too. Jay Z seems to have a lock on Budweiser commercials and that "Don't Hold Back" beat. That deadpan expression at the end of the commercial was a nice touch when he told Shula that the next time they played for Shula's rings.

Superbowl Commercials

I don't think the commercials are living up to the hype this year. I'm looking at every other commercial and saying "stupid", "dumb", and my all time favorite "are you serious?".

I think most of the companies should go back to their ad agencies and get some money back. It's been reported that GoDaddy.com spent over 2.5 million bucks for their spot. They better sell a lot of domains after showing that dumb commercial.

I have liked most of the Bud Light ads. The best commercials seem to be for beer and/or alcohol.

I Don't Like Exchanging Presents

I hate gift giving holidays. You know, birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day. My least favorite holiday is coming up now. Valentine's Day. Yuck. Let's face it ladies, most gifts that you get from your man, are really for him. I mean lingerie, yeah that's really for you. I think he gets the eye candy pleasure from that. And it's even better for him if he gets to unwrap that gift, if you know what I mean.

Well, I have a fool-proof present this year. A subscription to Sports Illustrated. Of course he gets the vaulted Swim Suit edition featuring Marisa Miller, Molly Sims, and a very svelte Heidi Klum. I swear that woman is superhuman. She gives birth and weeks later is modeling lingerie on live television. She's my shero!

He can choose to also go to SI Mobile and get ring tones. Whenever someone calls, he can see video clips from old photo shoots. There also wall paper that comes straight from the SI photo shoots. What man doesn't want a supermodel staring back at him from his phone. Especially since they're only $1.99 each and are available for all major phone carriers. I think this is a great idea and a fool proof present this year. I just know he's gonna love it! Especially when you have women looking like the one's in the picture.

Now I'm Ticked Off!

Ok so I'm having mad problems with my hosting account. Now my domain name totally doesn't exist. They told me to change my domain to a blog account. To do that, I had to change my domain name. It takes 2-24 hours but usually 2. So they say!

It's been 16 hours and my domain is just hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, the blog account is only free for 1 month. What!!!! I have hosting so I don't need a separate blog account. I would be paying for a blog, domain name, and hosting. Oh hell no. I don't think so.

I think I'm just going to totally cancel this account and start over with another company in a few weeks. If the company put more emphasis on customer service and less time worrying about Super Bowl ads, maybe they would have happier customers.

When You Need Funny Pick Me Up

Some days I feel like this. Everything just seems to go wrong. Well, sites like this make it all better. It's a site about cartoons by Oliver Gaspirtz. I love dark humor cartoons the most.

He is a really talented artist who has been published in the Sun, National Enquirer, and the Saturday Evening Post among other papers. In 2000 he decided to publish his cartoons exclusively on the internet. He also draws all of his cartoons by hand, then scans them onto the computer and lastly they get colorized in Photoshop.

There really is something for everyone on this site. You should check it out. But be prepared to laugh. You have been warned.

WooHoo Phil!

Every year thousands of people descend upon the town of Punxsutawney PA to see if the famous groundhog will see his shadow. The town is 65 northeast of Pittsburgh with 6100 residents, but more than 15,000 people pack the streets waiting for Phil's prediction.

Since he didn't see his shadow spring is just around the corner. Considering we've had snow and freezing temperatures for the last 2 weeks, that is very welcome news.

The prediction is based on a German superstition. According to folklore:

"The Germans believed that if a hibernating animal cast a shadow Feb. 2 -- the Christian holiday of Candlemas -- winter would last another six weeks. If no shadow was seen, legend said spring would come early."

I really don't care how spring gets here, I just wish it would hurry up!